A word from Honey Badger –

A word from Honey Badger –

12 August
Another big day with that weekly round of radiation AND chemo. Nurses, suddenly, more forthcoming with information. Learned, today, that the doctors will make the final call on the efficacy of treatment 6 to 8 weeks after last treatment. Last treatment scheduled for the 18th. More loopy-evoking behavior ahead when we begin new diagnostic tests. Whee!

Yesterday, talked to nurses, then doctor about undissolved stitches at port site because of the pus I found under one of them. Oncology nurse made hospital appointment for me today so we trooped over to the hospital to see the doctor. If we'd been at home or in our childhood frame of mind, the doctor and I would have whipped out the tweezers and the Watkins salve but the doctor, wearing his scrubs and standing in the midst of a hospital, weakened. We'll go the “professional” route tomorrow to have at the stitches.

Tired. Heading for a second nap. Honey Badger don't care.

Kendall may be catching up on her sleep. She goes to bed much earlier and, yesterday, she slept on loungers in the chemo room. She was sound asleep next to me when I headed over for radiation and, when I notified the nurses that I was back, they said I’d lost my chair. “Someone is sleeping in your chair,” the Snow White look-alike told me in her very best Three Bears voice. I looked. It was Kendall. While I was gone, she had wakened and decided to warm up my chair. Good call. That room is so cold. And, yesterday, Honey Badger cared.